Meet our Magnificent Makers
Little Inventors wants children to open their eyes to the world of invention and creativity. But beyond the invention drawings, there is a unique opportunity for children and makers, designers and artists to come together and collaborate to bring children’s imagination to life.
By taking children’s ideas seriously and presenting them in a professional manner through collaboration with skilled makers, we will help showcase children’s original ideas, perspectives and voices.
We also want to challenge the skills and experience of adult makers, and encourage them to push beyond their own limits by engaging with the highly imaginative and unhindered minds of young children.
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Download our maker's resource pack full of helpful tips and hints for selecting, creating and documenting your making process.
Orbital FX are prop makers based in the UK's North East, specializing in creating high-quality, detailed props and costume pieces for film, TV, and themed events, using advanced techniques like 3D printing, CNC fabrication, mould making, and electronics integration to bring imaginative designs to life for major projects like The Mandalorian and Disneyland.
Hi, I’m Craig and I run a design and engineering consultancy. My background is in mechanical design and development engineering and I have worked on products ranging from race cars to large diesel engines to health and safety equipment. I’ve always loved getting involved in STEM support with schools and this looks like a great initiative where I could share my design and engineering skill to help bring some amazing inventions to life.
I'm an animator and model-maker based in Northumberland. I combine digital animation techniques with more traditional methods like stop motion. I enjoy sharing my skills with others - I'm an Associate Lecturer at Northumbria University and an animation mentor with TICE - introducing children to what it is like working in creative industries.
I am a student at CCS (College for Creative studies) majoring in Industrial Design. I enjoy every step of the creative process, from brainstorming ideas to presenting the final product. I like to learn new tools and optimize my process and techniques as much as possible. In my free time I like to draw, design characters, and writing stories.
I take pride in seeing 'really cool things' that can't exist- and help argue that they should through design.
Since 1969, TARUS has been a world leader that builds custom machines for heavy industry. Starting out of a garage, TARUS pioneered many important developments in the machine tool business including key innovations in Gundrilling machines, we invented the Claymill, and we developed a Graphical User Interface 2 years before Apple in the early 1980s. We are vertically integrated, meaning we build everything from scratch in-house for our machines.
I love to dive deep into innovative ideas and help them get closer to a real product. Getting a hot coffee, turning on some music and just flow into the process of creating is one of my favorite things in life.
I am a recent graduate of College for Creative Studies who enjoys crafting imaginative, playful, and engaging solutions that resonate with audiences of all ages.
